- Contributed by听
- West_End_at_War
- People in story:听
- Audrey Trudgill
- Location of story:听
- South London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2767115
- Contributed on:听
- 21 June 2004
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War website by Angela Parks of CSV Media on behalf of Audrey Trudgill and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
The doodlebug raids in London began at the end of May, 1944. I was about 11 years old and my mother used to leave me in the garden to listen for them flying over. My brother was only 8 months old at the time, and I used to sit in the garden with him. When I heard a doodlebug, I used to shout for my mother, who would run out into the garden and pick up my brother, and we would go into the Anderson Shelter.
On this particular occasion, I heard the familiar popping noise of a doodlebug, but we didn鈥檛 have time to get to the shelter. We stood in the garden and watched as it came down and landed on one of the gasometers near the Oval cricket ground. A huge, red flame shot up in the air. Luckily, the Oval cricket ground was between us and the bomb!
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